Now ask yourself why they were able to do it. Durov broke the law in Russia, so called Yarovaya law, issued in 2017. According to this law all the info and messages to be hosted on servers in Russia and to be provided to FSB according to legal requests in cases of criminal activities, including terrorism and CP. Durov refused to follow the law and left the country getting citizenship of France and UAE, hosting servers overseas and making it difficult for russian authorities to block telegram. On the other hand the telegram traffic was accessible by Amazon, Google, etc.
Don't you people remember that soon after massive flee from Twitter to telegram since 1.6 General Flynn appeal to leave the telegram because they were bad guys.
Learn Russian, as advised, and read what Russians say about Durov. He is a laughing stock in Russia now, not because his last name is a derivative from a word fool, but because his escape from the law failed. Interesting, that when Putin had an official visit in Azerbaijan recently, it was announced that he had no intention to meet Durov who also was in Azerbaijan trying to escape Western countries, although his family was in Switzerland at the moment. There is more to the story than we may assume as there are some forces behind Durov naturally
Now ask yourself why they were able to do it. Durov broke the law in Russia, so called Yarovaya law, issued in 2017. According to this law all the info and messages to be hosted on servers in Russia and to be provided to FSB according to legal requests in cases of criminal activities, including terrorism and CP. Durov refused to follow the law and left the country getting citizenship of France and UAE, hosting servers overseas and making it difficult for russian authorities to block telegram. On the other hand the telegram traffic was accessible by Amazon, Google, etc.
Don't you people remember that soon after massive flee from Twitter to telegram since 1.6 General Flynn appeal to leave the telegram because they were bad guys.
Learn Russian, as advised, and read what Russians say about Durov. He is a laughing stock in Russia now, not because his last name is a derivative from a word fool, but because his escape from the law failed. Interesting, that when Putin had an official visit in Azerbaijan recently, it was announced that he had no intention to meet Durov who also was in Azerbaijan trying to escape Western countries, although his family is in Switzerland now. There is more to the story than we may assume as there are some forces behind Durov naturally